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Hill's Science Diet Puppy Small Breed & Mini Breed Chicken Meal & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 12.5-lb bag
Hill's Science Diet

Puppy Small Breed & Mini Breed Chicken Meal & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 12.5-lb bag

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AAFCO compliance inferred from product name
dry $3.92/lb

Hill's Science Diet Puppy Small Breed & Mini Breed Chicken Meal & Brown Rice Recipe Dry Dog Food, 12.5-lb bag earns a Sniff Score of 70/100 (B) with Fair evidence. Zero controversial ingredients flagged. Reasonable protein quality. chicken delivers solid amino acid coverage..

Graded by The Sniff System

Why this score

Reasonable protein quality. chicken delivers solid amino acid coverage.

PQI

Quality carbohydrate sources with fermentable fiber.

CQI

Quality fat sources: named fat with marine oil (EPA and DHA source).

FQI

Controversial ingredients · 1

  • sodium selenite
    Synthetic selenium source. Selenium is essential, but sodium selenite has a narrower safety margin than organic alternatives like selenium yeast. Better-formulated foods use the organic form.

Every flagged ingredient has a published basis (confirmed harm / regulatory action / precautionary). See methodology →

Guaranteed analysis
Protein
24%
min
Fat
15%
min
Fiber
4%
max
Moisture
10%
max
Ingredients
40 total
  1. 1 chicken
  2. 2 oats
  3. 3 brown rice
  4. 4 chicken meal
  5. 5 chicken fat
  6. 6 pea protein
  7. 7 whole grain corn
  8. 8 cracked pearled barley
  9. 9 soybean meal
  10. 10 chicken liver flavor
  11. 11 corn protein meal
  12. 12 pork liver flavor
  13. 13 dicalcium phosphate
  14. 14 ground pecan shells
  15. 15 lactic acid
  16. 16 soybean oil
  17. 17 flaxseed
  18. 18 dried beet pulp
  19. 19 fish oil
  20. 20 dried citrus pulp
  21. 21 calcium carbonate
  22. 22 salt
  23. 23 potassium chloride
  24. 24 sodium tripolyphosphate
  25. 25 choline chloride

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